Franco loses WBA 115lb belt on the scale, Ioka makes weight
By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda
WBA super flyweight champion Joshua Franco has lost his belt on the scale since he couldn’t make the class limit of 115 pounds (52.1 kilogram) on Friday in Tokyo, Japan. He at first scaled in at 55.2 kilogram, 3.1 kg (some 6.8 pounds) over the limit. Given two hours for weight reduction, Franco, after one hour and fifty minutes, reduced only 200 gram, some half a pound, to his final weight of 55.0 kilogram (121.5 pounds by JBC). The challenger and former WBO ruler Kazuto Ioka has made weight at 52.0 kilogram (114.75 pounds by JBC) at his first trip to the scale. Their weight difference was no less than 3.0 kilogram (6.75 pounds by JBC), but the fight will go ahead as scheduled tomorrow.
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